Couple of minor tech points, though. Negative feedback was present in some Fenders all the way back to the mid fifties, but they generally did start raising how much was used with each successive generation of amps.

The early (single 6V6) Princetons used the same number of gain stages as the Champs, all the way back to the 5C1 and 5C2 models with 8 pin preamp tubes. The single Tone knob was an add on, and didn't really cause enough signal loss to need a makeup stage.

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"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great." -Zig Ziglar

I bought one of the Bordeauxx '65 reissues with the 12" speaker, then sent it back in favor of the standard 10" models. Now that I have the 10", I probably should have kept the 12", but the sound I had in my head was a little different than I was getting with the 12". The 10" does not quite get me there either, though I have not played much with the tone controls. Need to fool around more with that.

I put a blue light bezel on my 69 Bandmaster, back in the day!
Glad you tested the Princeton with a Tele, because of course these amps were made for Fender guitars!
Still have my eyes on a 68 Reissue Deluxe.

So now we are now a couple of weeks out and I'm just loving this little guy more and more. Today's experiments were with the Analog Alien Joe Walsh Double Classic pedal and the ES-335. I have discovered that with a little more low-end carved out by the JWDC and a tiny bit more compression, I've got a really wonderful lead sound on all three pickup settings. At three or four on the '68 Custom PR's volume, the "classic amp" side of the pedal can add just enough "hair" to round out the attack of the guitar and make it sound very pretty. Like a 5E3 Deluxe, this amp can make you love your neck pickup again. Marvelous!!!

Bob

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